Quotes by Equality when women progress, all of society benefits. Hillary Clinton equalityprogresswomen The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. Ida Tarbell equalityimportantmen It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered. Ida Tarbell equalitywomenjustice An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Ignazio Silone equalitylawmen Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Honore de Balzac equalityexerciseheart The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch equalitycry Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser. Isocrates equalityfreedomrights Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. J. B. Priestley equalitychangemen If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. J. K. Rowling equalityattitudelife Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. Jack Kemp equalitypoliticalopportunity We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design. Jacque Fresco equalityfightingintegrity The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things. Jacques Pierre Brissot equalitypoliticalknowledge Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun conventionsequalitysublime The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. James Bovard equalitylawfather I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense. James Bryce equalityrightsthinking The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms. James Fitzjames Stephen equalityshapesjustice Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James F. Cooper equalityrightsmean Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. James Kirke Paulding equalitystupidityhands My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. James Meredith equalityfatheramerica His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. James M. Barrie upstairsequalitymay«89101112131415161718»
